“We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely… change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.”
George Sheehan
“It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.”
Shirley Chisholm
“For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three -- the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings.”
Peter McWilliams
“You do anything long enough to escape the habit of livinguntil the escape becomes the habit.”
David Ryan
“Addiction is a serious problem for our nation, and the efforts that individuals make against this problem benefit us all.”
John Walters
“In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy”
Ivan Illich
“Courage consists in the power of self-recovery.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
